January 2022 Brighton Jug Meetup

Out first ever Brighton JUG will take place on Tuesday 18th January at 5 pm GMT. We will be opening the zoom just before 5pm for people to gather and chat.

Sign up, spread the word, BYOB and pizza, and join the conversation!

Our first speaker will be Helen Scott who is a Keynote Storyteller at MongoDB. Helen will be talking to us about how Writing Code is Easy, Being a Great Developer is Hard:

tldr; Everything I wish I’d learned about being a developer at University.

We learn to write code at university, bootcamp, or we teach ourselves. Then, after months/years, we launch ourselves at our development careers and also, inadvertently launch ourselves at a whole bunch of other skills, that we might not have even realised we needed. These skills are rarely taught on traditional routes, but it’s these skills, when combined with writing code, that make you a great developer.

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Helen is a Keynote Storyteller at MongoDB.

Connect with Helen:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/HelenJoScott
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/helenjoscott/

Our second speaker will be Lee Turner - the Lead Backend Developer at Crunch. Lee will be talking to us about Java Development in a Post Log4Shell World

As a Java developer you will probably already be aware of, and are probably in the midst of remediating, the vulnerability that has come to be known as Log4Shell. This is the vulnerability which security researchers disclosed on Friday (10 December 2021) for Apache’s Log4j logging framework.

This was one of the most serious vulnerabilities found in the java ecosystem for a long time - a zero day, unauthenticated Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in a library used by a huge number of java apps. With Oracle reporting over 13 billion devices using java, that provides a huge number of potential targets.

In this talk we will briefly cover what Log4Shell is and how it can be exploited. We will then discuss what we can do, as developers, to "shift left" and improve the health and security of our code even though security is not always part of a developer’s mindset.

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Lee is a the Lead Backend Developer at Crunch

Connect with Lee:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/leeturner
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/turnerlee